Jim Himes actually said...

We saw it under the Bush administration in which the CIA and George Tenet, the director of the CIA, famously characterized the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a slam dunk, because that's what the vice president, Dick Cheney, and the president wanted to hear.

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Himes compares the current situation with intelligence to past instances where intelligence was manipulated to fit political narratives.

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